The French film that is perhaps most evocative of early American film noir (that of the 1940s) is Julien Duvivier's doom-laden masterpiece Pépé le Moko, a film that is so depressingly grim that it was banned by the French government at the outset of WWII through concerns over its demo...
Directors Du-Fr Contains articles like Duras, Marguerite, Duvivier, Julien, Dwan, Allan, Eastwood, Clint, Egoyan, Atom, Eisenstein, Sergei, Epstein, Jean, Eustache, Jean, Fábri, Zoltán, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, etc… Directors Fr-Ha Contains articles like Fridriksson, Fridrik Thor, Friedkin...
60. Panique (Julien Duvivier, 1947) Julien Duvivier’s Panique informs small-town life with rich menace, suggesting a correlation can exist between vicious gossip and physical violence, as people seek to assert dominion over the reputations of their neighbors out of boredom and resentment. Througho...
Subjects include: René Clément, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Julien Duvivier, Henri Decoin, Claude Autant-Lara, as well as composers who made movie music an art in and of itself, far from the Hollywood spotlight.The Projectionist- Blu-ray/DVD THE PROJECTIONIST This documentary portrait of theater ope...
So gibt es seit den 1930er Jahren eine Vielzahl von meist in Paris produzierten Filmkomödien, die nur passagenweise in der Metropole an- gesiedelt sind und ansonsten in der ländlichen Provence oder in der Hauptstadt spielen (z.B. Un carnet de bal, Julien Duvivier, 1937; Hôtel ...
Best foreign film: "Un carnet de bal" by Julien Duvivier (Fra) Best actor: Emil Jannings (Germany) in "Der Herrscher" byVeit Harlan Best actress: "Bette Davis (USA) in "Kid Galahad" by Michael Curtiz and "Marked Woman" by Lloyd Bacon 1938 Best film: "Olympia" by Leni Riefensta...
Based on the 1960 crime noirEasy Come, Easy Goby British author James Hadley Chase,Chair de Poule(English title:Highway Pick-Up, 1963) is the penultimate film of the legendary French director Julien Duvivier. If the basic premise sounds like it was inspired byThe Postman Always Rings Twice,...
“Poetic realism’ was not a precise term but it did differentiate a class of dramatic and occasionally comedic films from their less substantial predecessors. Jean Renoir’sGrand IllusionandRules of the Game, Julien Duvivier’sPépé le Moko, Jean Vigo’sZéro de Conduite,and Marcel Carné’...
Le gendarme( La Belle équipe / Julien Duvivier / 1936 ) Jean GabinJean dit Jeannot( La Belle équipe / Julien Duvivier / 1936 ) Léon BlumHimself in 1936( Archive footage ) Jean DastéL'instituteur( La Grande illusion / Jean Renoir / 1937 ) Pierre FresnayLe captaine de Boeldieu( La...
the legendary cinematographer Jules Kruger, who had previously collaborated with Abel Gance on Napoléon and would subsequently contribute to some of the most visually striking French films of the 1930s - including Raymond Bernard's Les Misérables (1934) and Julien Duvivier's Pépé le Moko (1937...